January 2010 trip report.

Thanks, getting on the road now! We'll be talking to ya!

Thanks dsoup, I'm sure we will. We're at the end of our first leg of our trip. Just stopped in Ashland Va. for the night. Will start out again first thing in the morning.

Yeah yeah Annie, calm down. We're started out first thing in the morning again.


dsoup, we only drove 5 hours last night. Just wanted to get past Washington and all that mess during the night, no traffic what so ever. It was great. Really had a bad nights sleep though. Had a Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks at about 8pm and it kept me up tell about 2am. Got back on the road at 7:30 this morning and we are now about 2 hours from Disney in St. Augustine Fl. if we get on the road again early, we should be in WDW by 9:30 in the morning. Will get a good night sleep tonight, no coffee since this morning.

This is how our day started, a warm day in Florida.


Got to SSR about 10:30. Checked in but they did not have our rooms ready so they where going to text me when they were ready. Went over to the ticket counter and got out friends thier parkhopper tickets. While we were there, they found out that it was Del's Birthday ( Tom & Del are the friends we brought down to Disney). They had to do something special so: Got a video, cant load it right now. Will continue later. Bye

Okay folks, back to the story. While we were checking in, they found out it was Del's birthday, so of course, they gave her a Birthday Pin. Then they got on the phone and told someone named Jack to get up here right away, that they had a job for him. The following videos are what Jack does! (sorry they are not the best, but all we had at the time were cells phones, all the cameras were still in the car:

Still Day 1:
After our excitement at check-in, left the Carriage House (check-in) and ran into Jack again out side, (he is the official Meet & Greet person) and we talked for a while and he sang some more! His partner is named Jill. Get it, Jack & Jill. They didn't intend on that , it just happened.

Well when we got back to our car, we were going to go to the MK to wait for a text that our rooms were ready, but I got a text that one was ready , do we drove over to Congress Park and unloaded our car and took everything up to that room.
Here is the view from the first room:

Well, we didn't here anything about the second room yet, so we headed over to DHS. Weather was warm, about the mid 70's. The Park was pretty busy

But not too bad. First thing we saw were these guy's;

Did not get to see them perform though, they had just gotten done and were leaving. We saw some sights,

Did the back lot tour and then headed to dinner.

Umm, umm! That was good. Rather eventful too after a few good martini's. More later...........................

Okay, quick drive by. Bali I think I fixed the video links. I spoke with Vettelover by phone. Sounds like he is having a great time. Missed him at Downtown Disney, we showed up, he had just left.

The balloon is not running in Downtown Disney because of the winds. have to keep calling to see when they will be going up. We did AK today. It was pretty empty except for a few tour groups from Brazil, and I won't even start going there.

Will try to get back on tonight with more.

Okay , back to were I left off:
I had the Blue Lump Crab Cake with Potato Crust, Green Cabbage Slaw, Cognac Mustard Sauce, and Remoulade as appetizer, the

Caramel Parfait on a Chocolate Praline Crisp with a Citrus Raspberry Wine Reduction for dessert. Sorry, forgot to take pictures all that.
After dinner, we went to see Fantasmic,

The skies got pretty dark & it started to rain alittle, but there was a pretty good crowd.

To be continued!

****FLASH UPDATE ****FLASH UPDATE***
Stuck in WDW for another day due to weather driving home. Everyone is scrambling to get rooms.

Hey all, well it be one heck of a week. Did all the parks, went up in the balloon in DTD, it was wonderful, got tons of pics. Met up with Vettelover and his DW on Thursday and did the Illuminations Cruise which was out of this world. Vettelover says 'Hello WDWFG". Pictures to follow!

okay, to finish out Sunday:
We went to see Fantasmic. It only rained a short while before the show and it went off without a hitch,

During the show, I got a text from SSR that our other room was ready. Dont ask me why it took so long, but after the show we went back to SSR and found our room. Here is the view from there.



Pretty nice huh?

Okay, Yes we got a 2 rooms in CBR for saturday night no problem and upgraded our friends tickets to add a park hopper day, (Wow! a whole $3.00 a piece), so we packed up at SSR, went to CBR, checked in, got our rooms and went back into the Magic Kingdom for the rest of the day. I made reservations at Fultons Crab House on line for dinner Saturday night. It was one of the best meals we had all week! Greg, our waiter, was the best we ever had. He made eating there a whole new experience. We had a blast!

Its 9:19pm and we are in Rocky Mount NC. Its very icy here and some snow on the ground. Hope to be home by 5 pm on Monday.